62 Dunedin Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic mid-terrace townhouse; built c.1880 to designs by J & W Kirkpatrick and located to the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Square on plan with two-storey canted bay and two-storey return to rear.

Mansard natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and fish-scale tiles; slate roof with leaded hips and ridges to canted bay. Replacement red-brick chimneystack. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves course. Walling is painted smooth render on a contrasting plinth with platband between floors; moulded eaves cornice. Windows are uPVC replacements in segmental-headed surrounds with projecting painted sills; square-headed with continuous sill course to ground floor of canted bay; two gabled dormers to attic having round-headed uPVC windows in timber frame with carved brackets under eaves.

The principal elevation faces southwest; two-storey canted bay at left with window to each facet; entrance door to ground floor right with window over at first floor. Original bolection-moulded four-panelled timber door with bronze door furniture, in a segmental-headed doorcase with panelled sidelights and plain transom light.

The northwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/005B).

The northeast (rear) elevation was not viewed. Two-storey gabled return at left.

The southeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB03/17/005D).

Setting:
Situated to the north side of Lodge Road in a residential area on the approach to the town centre. Set back from the road with lawned garden to front, bounded by mature hedges and trees; tarmacadamed pathway to entrance door. Painted roughcast rendered wall with saddleback coping to entrance, with replacement cast-iron latchgate. Rear yard enclosed by rendered walls; to northeast is a two-storey painted roughcast render slated outbuilding, forming part of a terrace. Outbuilding has, at northeast elevation, modern skylight to roof and modern window and door opening at ground floor. Concrete communal yard to northeast has gravelled parking area.

Roof: Natural slate
Walling: Painted smooth render
Windows: uPVC
RWG: Cast-iron

Historical information

The current dwelling dates from 1880 and forms part of a terrace of seven houses, the only known work by local architects and brothers, J & W Kirkpatrick of Blindgate Street, Coleraine (Girvan, ww.dia.ie). The terrace was considered to be on the best, because sunniest, side of Lodge Road and was occupied largely by middle-class merchants and professionals who kept at least one servant. Lodge Road was laid out between 1833 and 1845, being first shown on O’Hagan’s map of Coleraine dating from 1845 and is named after ‘The Lodge’, a dwelling house at the southern end (now replaced by a hotel). The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw a building boom of terraces and villas in Coleraine of which local people were extremely proud. The boom is said to have begun in the late 1850s when Thomas Boyd built Waterford Terrace at the Coleraine end of Lodge Road (Mullin).

The terrace is entered into valuation records in 1880, given the name ‘Dunedin’ in 1881 and is first shown on the third edition OS map of 1904. The first occupier to be noted was Henry Brown in 1882 and the house, office, yard and small garden, was leased from Oliver H Liken. The house was valued at £22 initially but reduced to £20 in 1887, probably as the result of an appeal. The house subsequently became the home of Mrs Daniel Boyd (1893) and then of Maria Rutherford (1896) Mr Adams was the next occupier in 1901, followed by the landlord, Oliver H Liken (1902), Alexander Hood (1907) and Joseph Leitch (1912). Joseph Leitch was a retired farmer who lived with his widowed mother (1911 census). Dunedin Terrace was revalued in 1912, the value dropping to £18.10s. Valuer’s notes of this period show a plan of the house with two-storey rear extension and outbuildings at the rear of the yard, all still present.

Joseph Leitch remained at the house until 1944 when it was taken over by Daniel McNeill. Valuer’s notes of the 1930s give the accommodation as a reception, kitchen, scullery and pantry on the ground floor, two bedrooms, a bathroom, WC and reception on the first floor and three bedrooms on the second floor. In the 1930s the houses were said to have cost £1400 each to build, had gas lighting and the rear outbuilding was cobbled inside.
The house was listed in 1977 and is currently undergoing renovations.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/5/7/1 First Edition OS Map 1830
2. PRONI OS/6/5/7/2 Second Edition OS map 1849-50
3. PRONI OS/6/5/7/3 Third Edition OS Map 1904
4. PRONI OS/6/5/7/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1923
5. PRONI OS/6/5/7/5 Fifth Edition OS Map 1949
6. PRONI VAL/12/A/5/13 Valuer’s notes 1909-12
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/30/9A-N Annual Revisions (1864-1929)
8. PRONI VAL/3/C/6/4 First General Revaluation 1933-57
9. PRONI VAL/3/D/6/2/H/23-24 First General Revaluation 1933-57
10. HB file – 03/17/005A-G

Secondary Sources

1. Girvan, W D “Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings, Areas of Architectural Importance in Coleraine and Portstewart” Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1971-2
2. Mullin, Rev T H “Coleraine in Modern Times” Belfast: Century Services Ltd, 1979
3. www.dia.ie

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

R. Age
S. Authenticity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic mid-terrace townhouse; built c.1880 to designs by J & W Kirkpatrick and located to the north side of Lodge Road in Coleraine town centre. Some alterations and refurbishments, but the building retains much of its original detailing and remains a well-preserved example of a typical late-Victorian terraced townhouse. Forming part of an important and prominent terrace, in a town largely characterised by its development during the Victorian era, Dunedin Terrace is one of the best preserved representative examples of late-nineteenth century terraced architecture in Coleraine. No 62 has group value with the other listed buildings in the terrace and is of significant local interest.

General comments

Listing Criteria R - Age; and S - Authenticity also apply.